Vancouver Patrick Cruz mounts exhibit Vancouver, B.C. – The prize-winning artist Patrick Cruz, last year’s Royal Bank of Canada winner, will show Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise) at Centre A from March 4 to May 7, 2016. Curated by Makiko Hara, the show will include a video screening of the works of the late […]
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Life moves on for ‘Kim’ By Ted Alcuitas Richmond, B. C. – After 25 years playing Kim in the classic Miss Saigon, Ma-Anne Dionisio is still not leaving the theatre, ready to tackle other roles that come her way. After playing the role for so long, she relishes the idea of being part of the
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Luisa Igloria wins highest English language single poem competition. by Ted Alcuitas Filipina poet Luisa Igloria has been chosen as the first prize winner of the Resurgence Prize Poetry Prize—the world’s first major award for ecopoetry. With a first prize of £5,000 for the best single poem embracing ecological themes, the award ranks amongst the
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Richmond, B.C. Ma-Anne Dionisio & Jovanni Sy team up in Closer Than Ever By Ted Alcuitas A versatile director who performs and writes and an accomplished singer/actress are brought together Gateway Theatre’s production Closer Than Ever, now playing in Richmond until Feb. 20. Artistic director and Manila-born Jovanni Sy moved to Canada as a baby
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Owners Pamela and Sonny Florentin inside their Pinoy Heat restaurant in Regina. (Nichole Huck/CBC )
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City in Focus : Winnipeg By Ted Alcuitas We begin a new series highlighting different cities beginning in Winnipeg where we spent a week talking to personalities, visiting places and in a way, reconnecting to the place where we started our journalism journey four decades ago. We start with Fr. Geoffrey Angeles, the first Filipino-Canadian
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Fr. Geoffrey Angeles stands in front of Winnipeg’s St. Mary’s Cathedral where he serves as the first Filipino rector. JESSICA BURTNICK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Updated: March 4, 2021, 5:15 AM Updated:August 8, 2018, 2:00 PM Updated: October 23, 2017 Winnipeg Priest as Music Man By Ted Alcuitas ”I …thought his soul was in his fingers,”
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Ma-Anne Dionisio performs at Richmond Gateway Theatre’s production of Closer Than Ever. (Photo provided) Richmond, B.C. Tanyag Ma-Anne Dionisio takes on new role By Ted Alcuitas Arguably, Ma-Anne Dionisio is the best-known Filipino-Canadian singer whose roles in Miss Saigon, West Side Story and Les Miserables has put the Filipina in the theatre map worldwide. In
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Patrick Cruz and his winning entry ‘Time Allergy’. Artist Patrick Cruz looks to his roots by Ted Alcuitas “My experience migrating from the Philippines to Canada informs my studio practice, prompting me to question notions of diaspora, displacement and the adoption of a new cultural identity,” Cruz notes in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
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Cobonpue work gifted to Trudeau By Ted Alcuitas The designer with his ‘Yoda’ chairs used during the APEC Summit. A piece by internationally acclaimed designer Kenneth Cobonpue was President Benigno Aquino 111’s choice as a gift to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the lat APEC Summit in Manila. A Glass Globe by the Cebuano
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